[e12e]

I actually thought this story was a link to:

http://hintjens.com/blog:42 ("A Web Server in 30 Lines of C")

before I clicked through. Salient quote:

"ØMQ Is Just Like BSD Sockets, But Better

The other essential ingredients of a creation myth are lies and deception. ØMQ is nothing at all like BSD sockets despite very insistent attempts from its early designers to make that. Yes, the API is vaguely socket-like. APIs are not the same as semantics. ØMQ patterns are weird and wonderful and delicate but they are not, and I'll repeat this, even marginally close to the BSD "stream of bytes from sender to recipient" pattern."

[hintjens]

Indeed. The original "sockets on steroids" story was wrong, though sincere. Sockets are the API but the actual machine underneath is nothing like a BSD socket. ZeroMQ has in the last years moved away from the "it's a BSD socket" metaphor as it is a tediously limiting API in many ways, and created the unnecessary confusion that I wanted to pick on in this story.